Ridley Scott Wants Harrison Ford To Appear In BLADE RUNNER Sequel

I agree, beans are cool...

Oh Hell no. I mean, it'd be a cool curtain bow and all, but it would negate the ambiguity of the original.
No. Bad Ridley Scott. Bad.

I though Ridley said in an interview that he hinted that Deckard was a replicant? If so how would an older Deckard work? Repicants don't age. I never like the Deckard as replicant idea to begin with.

This won't work as a sequel. As a Prometheus style, in-universe but not directly related to the original, type of movie. Having Harrison Ford return might not be a good idea, since it'd give away whether or not Deckard was a replicant (if its an older Deckard then he's human, if he's not Deckard then it suggests he's a human template that the replicant Deckard was based on).

Or maybe Deckard and rachel were prototype replicants that do age but don't have the built in four year lifespan. The memory implants were intended to make them more stable so the four year lifespan wasn't needed. Or Ford could be a scientist at Tyrell who helped design the Deckard replicant. I'm sure Ridley can figure out a way to maintain the ambiguity.

Nice!

Harrison would do it for Ridley, especially if he liked the script and if his part was somewhat small. Perhaps the old Harrison made Deckard and has to help somebody make another one toward the end of the movie and have young Harrison return close to the end via Tron Legacy technology. That would be really cool if you ask me.

watched this movie many times and never bought that Deckard was a replicant. Replicants dont age so this would be a nice batch of proof pudding.

Woah. Never even noticed that. The Final Cut DOES get rid of the missing replicant. "Two got fried". Damn. I seen that cut a few times, as well, but I totally missed that line.

Thanks Duke. I'm not sure though where it ever said Replicants don't age. They never seemed to age since they only lived four years. Replicants aren't androids they are artificial humans that seem to be living flesh made to be more human than human. Presumably if they live longer than four years then they would age as a human would.

I read the book. The movie is not exactly faithful to the source material and is a separate entity. All they need to be consistent with is what is presented in the original movie which did not necessarily present them as androids. If we're going to consider the book as canon then where was Deckard's wife in the movie?

@Goomba- yeah, you completely missed it. Scott is adamant that Deckard is a replicant, which was his whole reason for doing the Final Cut.

In Scott's own words..."That's the whole point of Gaff, the guy who makes origami and leaves little matchstick figures around. He doesn't like Deckard and we really don't know why. If you take for granted for a moment that Dekard is, let's say, a Nexus 7, he therefore has an unknown lifespan and was starting to become awfully human. Gaff, at the very end, leaves an origami, which is a piece of silver paper you might find in a cigarette packet, and that's Gaff's message to say 'I've read your file, mate.' That relates to Deckards speech to Rachael when he says, 'Those aren't your memories, They're Tyrell's niece's memories'. He describes a little spider on a bush outside her window. The spider is an implanted piece of memory from someone else. And therefore Deckard, too, has memories."

The examples you cite that "confuse" people apparently confused you, lol. You got them backwards:

"There were some other subtle hints thrown in by Scott, too, such as Deckard's high threshold of pain. (He gets beaten up by Leon and doesn't have any bruises later when we see him shirtless. Also, he gets his fingers broken by Roy but he's still able to leap to the next roof and pull himself up by hand.)"



In reference to the unicorn, Scott says..."How could someone have known what's inside his head other than someone who has looked at his file and knew what had been implanted in his brain. I can't be any clearer that that! If you don't get that, you have to be a moron!"

http://robwrite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Battle-Behind-Bladerunner-Harrison-Ford-vs-Ridley-Scott

Well, that's preety definitive, no?

In any case, imo Ford (and Fancher, Hauer, and Dick, and WB, etc) was right; turning Deckard into a replicant undermines the entire story. This was a MAJOR issue between Ford and Scott featuring some underhanded actions by Scott and led to years of bad feelings and Ford consistentlty referring to BR as the worst movie experience of his life. While the ice has thawed in recent years, it may be wishful thinking on Scott's part if he plans to revisit the same issue